At least three people were killed and seven wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, further testing a shaky four-month ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The IDF said on Tuesday in a statement that it attacked a Hezbollah terrorist “who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them.”
A Hezbollah source told the French news agency AFP that the target of the attack was Hassan Badir, deputy head of Hamas’s Palestinian affairs department.
The attack took place a few days after a previous strike by Israel on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the…